Reality is that which, when you stop laughing at it, doesn't go away (false alarm Elon Musk 4202023 remix)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
One of the episodes in my False Alarm! Series from 2018 imagined a future where Elon Musk stepped up to help with the News. That Algorithmic Oligarchic joke is no longer funny. On 4.20.2023 Elon Musk followed through on his threat and brought Twitter to heel.
From 2018: A handful of tech barons now own the news but only one can rule the fake news. A chat with the comedy team behind the CBC’sThis is That satirical news show turns into breaking news about Elon Musk.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's theory of everything. |
| 0:05.0 | At Radio Topia, we now have a select group of amazing supporters that help us make all our shows possible. |
| 0:13.0 | If you would like to have your company or product sponsor this podcast, then get in touch. |
| 0:18.0 | Drop a line to sponsor at radiotopia.fm. Thanks. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, I'm super excited to tell you about a new show coming to Radio Topia. |
| 0:29.0 | It's called wait for it. |
| 0:31.0 | Not wait, like wait for me or wait, wait, don't tell me. |
| 0:35.0 | But wait, that thing that many in our society are concerned with gaining or losing. |
| 0:41.0 | Wait for it is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking about their weight. |
| 0:47.0 | Creator and host Ronald Young Jr. is seeking to have the conversations about our bodies that are often understated and sometimes flat out unsaid. |
| 0:57.0 | He kicks the show off with his own story, wondering if he can ever truly be desirable as a fat man. |
| 1:03.0 | He then brings us stories of all types of folks, fat and straight-sized who can't seem to keep weight off their minds. |
| 1:11.0 | New episodes starting August 17th. |
| 1:14.0 | Subscribe to wait for it today, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:19.0 | A couple of years ago, I produced a mini-series for the podcast called False Alarm. |
| 1:24.0 | It was about disinformation, propaganda, and the difficulties that I was having with making a podcast, |
| 1:31.0 | in which the line between fact and fiction was blurry. |
| 1:36.0 | One solution that I came up with was to split my podcasting practice in two. |
| 1:42.0 | In other words, I'm now writing fiction stories like Convolution. |
| 1:46.0 | A 10 episode mini-series I wrote for Audible back in 2020, |
| 1:51.0 | which stars Ray Seahorn if you haven't found that one, definitely check it out. |
| 1:56.0 | And I will be doing more like that soon. |
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